Nation in focus

April 16, 2013

Wally Skalij/McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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Jeff Littrel and his son, Malik, stand in the doorway of their home in the Ramona Gardens housing project in Los Angeles, California. The pair have settled in the troubled racially-troubled neighborhood and have become part of the community. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Wally Skalij/McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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Jeff Littrel and his son, Malik, stand in the doorway of their home in the Ramona Gardens housing project in Los Angeles, California. The pair have settled in the troubled racially-troubled neighborhood and have become part of the community. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT)